US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Feb. 17 for "Member-joined structure, battery module, and battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,930, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Member-joined structure, battery module, and battery pack" was invented by Takashi Yoshida (Kakogawa, Japan) and Tomomi Tanaka (Moriguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member-joined structure includes: a first member, and a second member having a shape of plate, the second member including an overlapping portion that overlaps with the first member and a protruding portion that protrudes from the overlapping portion along a first direction. In the overlapping portion, a joined portion in which the first member and the second member are joi...